Quality of Inpatient Tuberculosis Health Care in High-Burden Resource-Limited Settings: Protocol for a Comprehensive Mixed Methods Assessment Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The quality of care for tuberculosis (TB) is deficient in high-burden countries and urgently needs improvement. However, comprehensively identifying the required improvements is challenging. Providing high-quality TB care is an important step toward improving patients' quality of life and decreasing TB morbidity and mortality. Effective tools for assessing the quality of TB services using international standards and guidelines can identify existing gaps in services and inform improvements to ensure high-quality inpatient TB services.

Objective

This study aimed to develop evaluation instruments for defining the quality of provision of TB services.

Methods

To assess quality of services in the largest TB hospital in Armenia, we developed instruments based on t

SUBMITTER: Truzyan N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6996743 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature